All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.

Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.

You don't have to destroy me. Do you?

And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.

Never mistake motion for action.

Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.